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JOHN RHINO, OF HECLA, MONTANA.

DOOR-SECURER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,218, dated January 2, 1894.

Application filed August 15, 1893.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, JOHN RHINO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hecla, in the county of Beaver Head and State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Door-Securer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a door securer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient device capable of being folded into a portable form whereby it may be carried in the pocket.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective V ew of a securer embodying my invention, with the parts arranged in the operative position. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the parts arranged in the folded position. Fig. 3 is .a sectlonal View, showing the securer applied in the operative position to a door. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the filler detached. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the spur.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawmgs.

1 designates the main plate or body portronof the securer, which is provided with a longitudinal series of threaded apertures 2', and a terminal transverse slot 3, and 4 represents a sharpened spur in the form of a blade which is provided at its back with an upstanding flanged lug 5, adapted to engage the transverse slot in the main plate or body portion. The portions of the back of the spur 4, upon each side of the stud, form shoulders 6 which bear against the contiguous surface of the plate, and the flange 7 of said lugengages over the opposite surface of the plate to retain the spur in position.

8 represents a stop-plate, provided with an enlarged front end or boss 9, which is adapted, when the device is in its operative position, to engage the edge of the door. Interposed between the contiguous surfaces of the stop-plate and main plate is a wedge-shaped filler 10, provided with alongitudinal central slot 11 to receive the shank 12 of a thumbscrew 13, which passes through a smooth perforation 14 in the stop-plate and engages one Serial No. 483,214. (No model.)

folded to occupy a minimum amount of space when the securer is detached from the door.

The stop-plate is provided at its rear end with a perforation 17 and a cavity 18 which corresponds in shape and size with the spur 4, the latter being provided with a perforation 19 which registers with the perforation 17 when the spur, which is detachable from its seat in the main plate, is fitted in the cavity .18.

In Fig. 2, in which the deviceis shown in its folded form, the spur is arranged in the cavity 18 and is secured in place by the thumb-screw which engages said registering perforations, the slot in the filler, and one of the threaded perforations in the main plate.

To apply the device to a door the spur is arranged in its seat in the main plate, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and the adjacent end of said main plate is inserted between the edge of the door and the opposite portion of the casing and the door is closed, thus f0rc-v ing said spur into the casing. If the interval between the edge of the door and the casing is greater than the thickness of the main plate, the tapered filler is employed to fill such additional space by inserting either its smaller or if necessary its larger end between the door and the main plate. The stop plate is .now applied to the outer surface of the tiller with its enlarged end in contact with the surface of the door, and its perforation 14 is brought into alignment with oneof the perforations 2 of the main plate, after which the thumb-screw is inserted in the registering perforations and the parts are secured firmly in their adjusted positions.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a door securer, the combination with a main plate carrying a spur,ot' a stop-plate, a thumb-screw engaging registering perforations in the stop-plate and main plate, anda slotted tapered filler interposed between the stop and main plates and capable of adjust ment, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a main plate, a spur detachably secured to said plate, a stop-plate provided with a cavity corresponding in shape and size with said spur and adapted to receive the same when detached from the main plate, and a thu mb-screw engaging'registeriug perforations in the main and stop plates and adapted to secure the spur in the cavity of the stop-plate, substantially as specified.

3. The herein described door securer, comprising a main plate provided with a longi-' tudinal series of threaded perforations and a terminal transverse seat or slot, a spur provided with a flanged stud to engage said seat JOHN RHINO.

Witnesses:

THEODORE LEYBOLDT, GEO. B. CONWAY. 

